This article is about the book. For other uses, see Ecotopia (disambiguation).
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston
Cover of the first edition
Author
Ernest Callenbach
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Utopian novel
Publisher
Ernest Callenbach (self-published as Banyan Tree Books)
Bantam Books (1977)
30th-Anniversary edition, Heyday Books (2005)
Publication date
1975
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages
181
ISBN
0-553-34847-7
OCLC
20169799
Dewey Decimal
813.54 20
LC Class
PS3553.A424 E35 1990
Followed by
Ecotopia Emerging
Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the counterculture and the green movement in the 1970s and thereafter. The author himself claimed that the society he depicted in the book is not a true utopia (in the sense of a perfect society), but, while guided by societal intentions and values, was imperfect and in-process.[1]
Callenbach said of the story, in relation to Americans: "It is so hard to imagine anything fundamentally different from what we have now. But without these alternate visions, we get stuck on dead center. And we’d better get ready. We need to know where we’d like to go."[2]
^Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Callenbach, Ernest; Heddle, James. ""Ecotopia Then & Now," an interview with Ernest Callenbach". Retrieved 6 April 2013 – via YouTube.
^Timberg, Scott (14 December 2008) "The Novel That Predicted Portland" The New York Times
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